Eternity Poem by Cloe C

Those butterflies I get, fill up my whole body and when I try to speak most of the time, I fumble with every word I say and forget everything I was thinking. Those butterflies always found a way out, maybe they were meant for you. See my brain has somehow been hardwired into the thought of you. From reality morphed into how you seem to make each moment precious. How every second with you is like a dream, only a dream I won't forget even if I were hypnotized because you are unforgettable. The way you make seconds into hours and hours into eternity only with an end result of me wanting an eternity with you.
I used to fear falling in love. I thought of it as a person tripping, falling into a pitch dark well where you cannot see a bottom. Never knowing when your body will hit the water… you fall and, on the fall, you feel scared, shaking, cold, new to the experience… Maybe this is how falling in love is…. You're like the wind… you have the ability to sweep me off my feet and make me trip, to make me fall, fall in love. Maybe I can't see my future or when I will hit the bottom of the well…but maybe this is because there is no bottom… the well and true love are both endless… Yes, maybe the fall is sudden, and you can't see where you are going, and yes maybe it is a bit scary, but knowing that you were the one who swept me off my feet I know that when I eventually hit the bottom of the well, you will catch me, just as you inspired the fall.
I used to fear what happens after you fall out of love with a person… but I now know that true love, is endless. You see even after you fall into the well of love… it is not so scary anymore… I now know that at the bottom after I'm head over heels and have fallen, you did indeed catch me at the bottom… Yes, the well came to an end, but the experience did not. See now I'm not alone anymore. You inspired a fall so that therefore you can catch me when I fall… Now you have me and we can continue the fall together… Now it is not a fall… Now it is a journey.
Throughout this journey, we create a life together… Now every high and low point I will not be alone… I will have someone to comfort me. As my breath becomes shallow but yet rapid… the pitter-patter of my heart as it sings out symphonies. These symphonies work their way up from my heart and to my lips, through your lips and down your heart… As our lips combine our two hearts as one.
See love is not so scary now… Now I have someone who holds my hand and walks me through life, in sickness, and health as I hear bells… As I see flowers of all colors and sense the same symphonic racing of my heart as it sings along with the bells around me… After this feeling, I would truly never be alone… Our lips emerged into one and sung melodies to go with our racing hearts. Now rightfully immersed into one.
As the years pass by, I can remember that feeling of how scared I was to fall in that well… I'm feeling the same feeling as my years on this planet come short… Laying in a hospital bed smelling the hand sanitizer…zoning in and out, hearing your voice soft in the background, slowly fading away… I'm scared as I may be holding your hand for the last time, hearing your voice for the last time, and my only request is to get the butterflies that once belonged to you, to return as we lock our lips passionately for what appears to be the last time… As your voice fades, I can smell dirt…
Although I sat in my grave, I didn't once feel alone… I still had my marriage ring caressing my finger like how you use to play with my hair going through every strand… As I sat there, I pictured our life together… I couldn't ask for a better life, for better memories but most of all, for a better husband. You gave me the world as happy as you possibly could… Made me feel like every second of my day was special as I lived out my long-filled life, I was happy, with you. You visited my grave every day until eventually, you did not see me from above my tombstone anymore.
Sooner than later, you came to pay me an eternal visit. Once again, you never left my side… The earth being our bed and the dirt being our blankets, we laid next to each other… happily dead… together… An eternity that you made from just a few seconds… A look in your eye that I saw our entire future through…